the strangers almanac

Acoustic   3 Ratings  from United Kingdom Bandmembers:   Me (All instruments) Bandpage:   http://www.soundlift.com/strangers Homepage:   Influences:   eels, belle and sebastian, elliott smith, nick drake Next Show(s):   No shows scheduled for this band.

	Artschool   Acoustic     Song Info:  I guess this song is about pretentious art school types... doesn't have to be art scholars though, law students, business students... whatever... I just hate people who think they're cleverer because they've read a few books. I know alot of art students, and they're all cool as fuck. The phrase 'artschool' just fitted in with the song. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  1.8MB   Superheroes   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  I started writing this song one night at 11pm, and had the recorded version finished by 5am. It was a good nights work, I was really proud of this one at the time, considering it was made up of parts from three different songs I hadn't finished writing. The song is about a dream I had one night about the end of the world, and me and this other girl were two of the few people left alive, and we had to travel about on my scooter finding out what happened to everyone. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  3.1MB   Breathing Space   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  This is one of my favourites, I wrote it the same week I wrote 'Wasting A Day'. It's really just about the same thing, not dwelling on the past... I think. I remember it was a cloudy day, and the sun just came out, and started creeping in through these velux windows I had in the ceiling of my living room. There was a line in the bridge that went 'breathe in the water...' and Mike misheard it as 'breathe underwater...' which I thought was ten times better, so I changed it. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  3.3MB   She's Having A Better Day   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  This is a song that doesn't have alot of point. It's about a girl who goes into town to return some CD's that she bought, the places in the song are real, it's about my home town in Cupar, Fife, in Scotland. Composer:  Gordon Matheson Filesize:  5.7MB   Bus Stop, Perth Road   Acoustic Blues     Song Info:  My friend Mike used to live on Perth Road in Dundee, and I was waiting for a bus outside his house one day when the lyrics came to me. I guess it's really just a musical snapshot of the goings on in Perth Road that day, which was in March 2004. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  1.2MB   An Eskimo Kiss   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  This song was written for a dear friend of mine, she loves eskimoes, and I wrote this song as a sort of tribute to her. It's the first song I ever wrote on the piano, an instrument I really can't play at all. Once I've learned how to play it properly I might re-record this, but for now you'll just have to put up with my crummy playing! Composer:  Gordon Matheson Filesize:  3.4MB   Hey Girl   Acoustic Blues     Song Info:  Written in July or August 2004, about a certain girl I wanted to be involved with, but she liked someone else. I didn't want to get all emo and whiney about it but writing songs about these things tends to help. I'd already gotten over it when I wrote the lyrics, and I was going for a White Stripes kinda vibe. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  1.9MB   My Tornado Is Resting   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  I'm not really sure what this is all about, it's a bit jumbled, lyrics wise. The title actually came from one of those visualisations you get on Windows Media Player, I just thought it was a really nice name, and that it'd make a great song title. I suppose if I had to put my finger on it, this is about only being happy when you think about being with someone you want to be with. If that makes sense. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  4.1MB   4am   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  This song is about all those nights you can't get to sleep, and you're so bored and there's nothing on TV and no food in the house. Which is almost every night for me, insomnia sucks. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  4.4MB   Wasting A Day   Acoustic Pop     Song Info:  Wasting A Day was written in May 2003, in the living room of my old flat. I was going through a prolific period and had written about eight songs that week. I never really liked it when I wrote it, but it grew on me. I think it's got some nice lines in it. The song is about an ex-girlfriend of mine, but in the sense that I was trying to get over her and failing. It's also about not living in the past, and how it's a waste of a day to dwell on things you cannot change. Composer:  Strangers Almanac Filesize:  3.0MB